Due to circumstances beyond your control, you are master of your fateand captain of your soul.

Do notfind fault, find a remedy.

Untrained intelligence is as much of use as a bottle without an opener.

You're ina much better position to talk with people when they approach you than whenyou approach them.

There is all the difference in the world between having something to say and havingto say something.

The exercise of power is determined by thousands ofinteractions between the world of the powerful and that of the powerless, allthe more so because these worlds are never divided by a sharp line: everyonehas a small part of himself in both.

A merefriend will agree with you, but a real friend will argue.

If you get to thinking you're a person of some influence,try ordering somebody else's dog around.

The aimof argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.

Trust exists; only lies are invented.

Experience is a hard teacher because SHE gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.